British Empire. They were all over the world and influenced the development of many countries and civilizations, from Australia to Hong Kong to India to various places in Africa to the US and Canada, etc.

British Empire. They were all over the world and influenced the development of many countries and civilizations, from Australia to Hong Kong to India to various places in Africa to the US and Canada, etc.

I'd have to agree, that and for the general fact that most of the world that's been influenced by the British empire is a tolerable place to live, where the places that were not touched are mostly hell pits.

Rome was big, and a obviously influenced Europe, but China was the first, and, is arguably still in existence.

The roots of the main line Egypt-Hittites-Greece-Rome you can see in Göbekli Tepe (Asia minor, Turkey), where hunterers and gatherers produced a first civilisation. Maybe also India and China came out of this root. The astonishing thing: First was culture and civilisation - and afterwards followed agriculture and cities as center of civilisation. That's really very very astonishing. Pragmatically about 12000 years ago all mankind made a very gigantic perfect first step in Göbekli Tepe - everything was suddenly here what we call civilisation and started to evolve - and since this days we all together made perhaps a little second step and maybe we grew now to be ready to start to make a new step.